So, who are you?
Hey. We got your alert. Where's...
That's not Caitlin.
Uh... (chuckles)
What's, what's happening here?
Actually, it's kind of a long and very confusing story.
One which we are happy to share.
First, please meet--
You can call me Snow.
Wait, as in, like, the third Snow sister?
Barry, do you remember the time
that you found out Caitlin was trying to bring back Frost
and you destroyed her lab?
I didn't have a choice.
Uh, the point is, Caitlin never gave up.
She kept on working with me.
Together, we built a machine
to reactivate Frost's mind in Caitlin's body. Only--
Something went wrong.
(Mark) But in place of Caitlin--
I came out instead.
Well, if you're not Caitlin or Frost, who are you?
Honestly, I don't know.
I want to find out who I am just as much as the rest of you do.
Snow here is a total blank slate with zero memories.
So I've been doing my best to bring her up to speed.
Mark, what happened to Caitlin?
Where is she?
Caitlin's dead, Barry.
-What? -That's impossible.
I know what you must be thinking,
but I have a plan to bring Caitlin back.
(theme music playing)
Now, the CRC was supposed to unzip neural DNA from Caitlin.
That way, we could isolate Frost's brain patterns inside of her--
Download into another new body later on.
Only, a power fluctuation caused the process to malfunction.
And so, if Team Flash could provide me with a stable energy source,
we could reverse the process and just bring Caitlin back.
So now you want our help.
(sighs) For Caitlin's sake.
Yeah.
It's Caitlin. We have to try.
Yeah, I'm sold.
What do we have to lose?
Okay.
Let's get to work.
How did I do?
(sighs) Are you kidding?
You were perfect.
This is going even better than we planned.
What?
This is what Caitlin wanted.
And when we're done,
Frost will be back.
(Allegra) I can't believe this is really happening.
I mean, this is nuts.
Yeah, I know, right? (chuckles)
Especially with, uh,
you know, everything else that's happened lately.
Allegra, look, about what happened, I just want you to know that--
I think we should focus on Caitlin first.
Uh, and then, you know, when this is all done...
Uh, yeah, yeah, totally.
-I get it. -(chuckles) Yeah?
(vocalizes explosion) Right.
(clears throat) Okay.
(thunder rumbling)
What a day.
I still can't believe it.
So, Caitlin's gone.
I know.
It's too much.
All of it.
Babe, you okay?
Mmm-mmm.
When Barry called, he said Mark has a plan to get Caitlin back.
Joe, that is not even close to our only problem.
I think we should leave Central City.
Cecile, the reason I said we should leave
is because I'm worried that the stronger your new abilities become,
the more it puts you on the front line.
Come on.
God knows, you can handle anything,
but I'm still worried about who or what
is coming after the woman I love and the mother of my child.
(shuddering breaths) This family can't...
It can't handle losing you.
Okay.
(sighs)
Look...
Babe, I get it.
I do.
But what you're asking me, how am I supposed to...
choose
between our family and the greater good of the entire city?
How am I supposed to do that?
What am I supposed to do?
What are we supposed to do?
I don't know.
Oh, honey...
Oh.
I really wanted to see Old Faithful.
We can go to Yellowstone anytime.
Right now, it's more important we stay here to help Mark.
Are you okay?
(sighs)
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Barry... Barry, please.
Are you?
If Mark's plan doesn't work...
It has to.
(thunder rumbling)
(electronic dance music playing)
I feel like dancing
Buy you a drink, handsome?
One of us is still working.
Oh, wow.
I'll be sure to leave that "Employee of the Month" badge
on your side of the bed tonight.
(chuckles)
Good to close up?
I could get Ashanti to do it.
Uh, nah, I gotta earn my keep.
I hear the boss is a real jerk.
Uh, yeah?
-See you at home. -Okay.
I feel like dancing
(electronic dance music continues)
Good night.
(car beeps)
(suspenseful music playing)
Um...
If you're looking for a gig, Amateur Night's tomorrow.
I'm no amateur, Hartley.
And I already have a gig.
You.
(thunder crashes)
(violin plays)
(grunts)
(glass shattering)
(people screaming)
Aww, come on out, Hartley.
I promise to make it quick.
All you have to do is listen to the music.
(propulsive music playing)
(chuckles)
(weapon whirs)
Who are you and what the hell do you want?
You can call me The Fiddler.
And I'm here to ruin your night.
(propulsive music continues)
-(violin plays) -(explosion booms)
(grunts)
(groaning)
(panting)
Why are you doing this?
You have something I need.
(weapon whirs)
(Hartley screams)
Hartley!
Hartley.
Tell your boss I'll be back.
(whirring)
Hartley!
(dramatic music playing)
(Mark) It's okay.
Just remember that you're doing the right thing.
I sure hope so.
All right. Snow's ready.
Excuse me.
(beeping)
(whooshing)
(pod whirring and beeping)
We never really got to know her.
Well, we know she's brave as hell.
How long will this take?
Oh, as long as it needs to.
(Chester) Hold on.
The neural conductivity readouts are surging.
Mark, we got tachyon feedback.
(Mark) Mmm-hmm.
Hold on, something's not right here.
(pod zaps)
(panting)
What the hell are you doing?
Trying to save her life.
You can't interrupt this process.
You have to get her back inside right now.
Mark!
Chester, what happened?
I don't know, all I did was provide a stable power source.
That wouldn't cause this.
You didn't say this would hurt.
You just said it would bring them back. (panting)
(Iris) "Them"?
You mean Caitlin.
No.
She means Caitlin and Frost.
Mark, everything you've done has been for Frost, hasn't it?
That's why you haven't mentioned her.
This wasn't about Caitlin.
This was about bringing Frost back, wasn't it?
Mark, wasn't it?
Caitlin wasn't supposed to come back alone, Barry.
They both were.
God.
Trying to bring them both back, that must have caused the malfunction.
It's the only thing that makes sense.
Why did you lie to us?
Because I can't trust any of you.
You most of all, Barry.
That's why we had to build the CRC in secret in the first place.
Because Caitlin knew that you would try to stop her again.
Mark, man, this isn't right.
(Mark) I'm sorry, Team Flash.
Just because you all gave up on Frost doesn't mean that I can.
I never will.
(scoffs)
(somber music playing)
(alarm blaring)
Is that Mark?
No, it's an intruder alert. The med lab's been breached.
Stay here.
(gasping)
Hartley?
Where's Caitlin? I need a doctor.
She's away.
Sound waves short-circuiting my heart's natural rhythm.
Okay, how do I, I mean--
Use the sonic cuff.
The sonic--
-The bottom drawer! -The--
Bottom drawer!
-There. -(sighs)
(labored breathing)
Are you good?
(breathing slows)
-(sighs) -You okay?
-Took you long enough, Allen. -I'm sorry.
I mean, I didn't know, you said the bottom drawer.
It was in the top drawer. I didn't even know--
-Never mind. Let me rest. -God.
Oh, gosh.
This arrhythmia isn't going away anytime soon.
Cuff's a patch, not a cure.
-Okay.
-Hartley? -It's Hartley, yeah.
How did you get in here and what happened to you?
-One, I used to work here. -Okay.
And two, some musical psycho attacked me with her murder violin.
Calls herself The Fiddler?
Is this who attacked you?
Her name is Izzy Bowin,
only we were friends the last time we met.
Well, no need to unfriend Izzy on my account.
It's not her.
Barry, that's two new Rogues in two days,
and now Mark is lying to us too.
What? Trouble in paradise?
-Relax. -Don't worry about it.
I'll handle Mark.
(sighs) Bored. Sleeping now.
(Barry) Uh...
(thunder rumbling)
Your upgrade didn't work.
Don't get me wrong.
I love the fiddle and all.
(distorted voice) You failed me.
This is the price.
(screams)
Failing is not an option.
Now, bring me what I want,
or the next time you die.
Am I clear?
Yes.
Very. (pants)
I'm sorry.
(slow rock music playing)
Another round.
You know what, just make it the whole bottle.
Still won't bring her back.
I just wanna talk.
You're wasting your time.
And you screwed up, Mark.
Badly.
Yeah?
I know why you did it.
Okay.
Go on, go ahead, enlighten me.
Because you loved Frost.
With all your heart. You still do.
Sometimes, when we love someone like that,
we do the wrong things
for the right reasons.
I know I have.
Okay. So...
Are you saying you're not mad at me anymore?
No, I am.
But I understand why you lied.
But there's something you need to understand now too.
How we operate.
(softly) What?
You are a part of this team now.
And that means we have your back.
But you need to have ours.
Which also means no more going rogue.
Mmm.
Mark...
if you let us in...
We work together...
we can do the impossible.
But we have to stick together.
(cellphone vibrates)
We have to go. Right now.
-Go where? -Right now.
Where?
Is this, like, one of those team things?
(Mark) What do you mean this was never gonna work?
I ran a full diagnostic on the CRC, trying to figure out what went wrong,
and what I found was the neural DNA
could never unlock Frost's consciousness.
We need endogenous neural imprints to make this work.
Okay.
But you're talking about a literal map of Caitlin's mind.
Where are we gonna find something like that?
Thomas Snow.
Caitlin's dad?
But he's dead.
No, Iris is right.
Thomas Snow attached Frost's consciousness
to Caitlin when she was a child.
Caitlin downloaded everything she could find
from his digital files at her apartment.
So the hard copies and all the rest are in storage at Tannhauser Labs.
Now, it's a lot, but...
Meet me at Caitlin's.
I'll check in with Carla at Tannhauser.
Chester, you and Mark get to work on the CRC.
Once we find what we're looking for,
we're gonna bring back Caitlin...
and Frost.
(thunder booms)
(rain pouring)
(Hartley) What?
I entered the harmonics already.
(device beeping)
Come on. I know this.
Ow, frack.
(device beeping)
Damn it.
Why aren't you working?
Are you okay?
Well, you're obviously the other Snow sister.
Actually, I'm kind of busy, if you don't mind.
What are you working on?
My sonic gauntlets are...
Why do you care?
Oh, I don't.
About your gauntlets.
You just seemed like you were in pain.
What's wrong?
I have a dangerously erratic heart rate due to some
punk witch who caught me with my guard down.
But that won't be a problem next time,
'cause I'm boosting my gauntlets' efficiency by 400%.
Wow, why?
You know, actually, it doesn't matter.
If you could just, please, go away or something.
Okay.
I'm gonna make this easy.
Do you have any of Caitlin Snow's medical knowledge?
-No. -No, okay.
Um, can you shoot ice from your hands or eyes?
Either is acceptable.
-No. -No. Then you can't help me.
And therefore, you are useless.
So please, leave me alo--
-(beeping) -(whimpers)
-You shouldn't be working right now. -(gasping)
Or angrily asking people weird questions.
It's disturbing.
I have to finish this.
Are you scared that person will find you?
Because I'm sure Barry and the others have--
I have to get out of here, okay?
If I don't...
You're not afraid of getting hurt.
You're afraid of someone else getting hurt.
You think they're in danger.
And that is why
I have to finish these.
So I can keep him safe.
The only way that I can.
You're going to kill the punk witch?
Oh, no, killing is wrong.
And Central City has more meta violence per capita
than any other city in the world.
You're not a killer. I can tell.
You don't know me.
Actually, and I can say this quite truthfully,
I think I know you better than I know myself.
Look, I used to be a meta criminal,
a Rogue, as they say.
Used to hurt people all the time.
And I enjoyed it.
What changed you?
Oh, my... Roderick, okay?
Roderick.
You changed to keep him safe?
That's beautiful.
But that's not real change, is it?
Deciding to change for the person you love
doesn't mean you've decided who you want to be.
That's a choice you still have to make for yourself.
Isn't it?
(scoffs)
(dramatic music playing)
(electricity crackles)
(sighs) Please tell me you found something.
We have to get Caitlin and Frost back.
We can't.
(thunder crashing)
Is this really true?
I read it a dozen times.
In his original experiment,
Thomas Snow tried to create a Caitlin 2.0,
one that would be immune to ALS.
But instead, he created a daughter with two mixed consciousnesses.
And when he tried to reverse it,
he found out the process would kill one of them.
That's why Thomas never built his own CRC,
because he loved both Caitlin and Frost.
He couldn't bear to lose either of them.
Just like us.
Barry, if Snow goes into that machine
and only Caitlin or Frost can come back...
We're gonna have to choose who to bring back.
(thunder rumbling)
The last thing Caitlin said to me
was that she'd never stop trying to bring back Frost.
We need to honor her by honoring her plan.
Mark, we're all pretty clear on your opinion.
I wanna hear everybody else's.
Okay.
I vote to bring back Frost.
Mark's right.
Caitlin chose for us.
This was her plan.
So, choosing Frost honors her.
Right, Chuck?
Chuck?
Uh...
Sorry, but, but no.
Allegra, look, when Deathstorm brought my dad back,
it taught me one thing,
that resurrecting the dead is unnatural.
Now, I don't wanna choose,
but if I have to,
I choose Caitlin.
Because when I run through the science,
it's what makes the most sense to me.
Well, now.
It's two to one.
And let me guess,
you're with Chester, right?
That way your super-hubby can tip the scales to Caitlin.
Uh, no. I choose Frost.
I have my reasons, but that's how I feel.
Well, it's three to one.
I just need more time to think about it.
Well, think about it all you want, boss man.
But in eight hours,
I'm doing this, with or without you.
And if you try to stop me,
you'll have no one but yourself to blame for the fallout.
He can blame me.
You all are a family.
Now you're being torn apart and it's all my fault?
I wish I'd never been born.
(thunder rumbling)
(pensive music playing)
(footsteps approaching)
(sighs)
Worst day ever.
Snow's wrong.
It's not her fault. It's mine.
The last thing I said to Caitlin before I destroyed her lab was...
"I'm sorry."
Truth is, I wasn't.
Barry, the reason that I chose Frost
was because I didn't choose her the first time,
when I had the chance.
That's why I chose to bring Frost back.
Because I didn't choose her when she was alive.
What is it?
The moment Caitlin stepped into the CRC,
she made her own choice about what she wanted,
who she wanted to be.
Hmm.
And what if we've been thinking about this all wrong?
I know what we need to do.
(thunder booms)
Hello.
It's, uh, Snow, right?
Cecile.
Meta-human attorney and meta-human superhero.
Mark told me all about you.
You enjoying the weather?
I love the rain.
I love all of nature.
It just, it makes me feel so...
at peace.
Yeah, I could see that.
It's because everything in nature has a purpose.
Just like you. You have a purpose.
You help people. I just...
I wish I knew what my purpose was.
It's strange.
Right now, I feel so connected to all living things,
and yet so...
disconnected and alone.
Do you know that you're the first person whose feelings I can't read?
Usually,
ooh, that is something I'd be worried about,
but I don't know.
Not this time.
Somehow you just
seem like a friend.
Then let's be.
-Friends. -(chuckles)
Was that funny?
Am I a funny person?
That would be nice.
You are very genuine, and that is rare.
Thanks.
So, I heard about what the rest of the team was voting on.
(sighs) I gotta tell you,
I honestly don't know how I would've voted
had I been there, or Joe.
So...
I'm gonna ask you a question that I usually don't have to.
How are you feeling right now?
Even though my entire existence is a mystery,
one...
whoever I am...
I like myself.
And two...
I don't wanna go back inside that metal box.
And now I'm afraid of the decision the team will make.
You should make the decision for yourself.
Really?
Yeah, we looked at Thomas' original files on Frost and Snow.
When Frost was created,
Thomas didn't try to decide who his daughter should be.
He took a step back and he let them figure it out.
So, using the CRC and choosing who you should be,
that's not our choice to make.
Only you can decide who you're gonna be.
Oh, okay, this is what we're doing.
(Barry chuckles)
Okay, my turn! Oh, what? (laughs)
So, you've made a decision?
Not even.
But whatever decision I make, it'll be mine.
All mine.
(Barry, Cecile chuckling)
(alarm blaring)
What is it?
There's a massive sonic attack downtown.
Looks like our Fiddler friend is back and ready to rumble.
Wait. That's Hartley's Krakatoa Club.
He's gone after The Fiddler.
If he's still hurt, why didn't he ask for help?
(Snow) He doesn't want your help.
He finally made his choice.
(intense music playing)
(crowd screaming)
(sonic screeching)
(shouting) Does it look like I'm playing?
For the last time, where is Hartley Rathaway?
-(sonic screeching) -(screaming)
(screaming)
Please...
Let him go.
Hartley.
I knew if I put the squeeze on your squeeze,
you'd show up sooner or later.
Just in time too,
'cause I was starting to get bored of torturing your employees.
She killed them all.
The whole crew.
Did I mention that there are fates worse than death?
(gasping)
-(violin whirs) -(screams)
No!
-(gauntlets whir) -(growls)
(grunts)
(The Flash) It's over, Fiddler.
You're powerless
and outnumbered.
Oh, Flash,
you came to my show.
See, instruments are just a tool.
(mic feedback)
A real artist uses what's inside them.
(voice screeching)
(mic feedback)
(both grunting)
(both gasping)
(The Flash groans)
Time to get what I came for.
(growls)
(screaming)
(gasps)
(groaning)
How do you like my upgrade?
No, stop.
Snow told me what you said.
You don't have to do this, you can still choose another way.
(Hartley) It's too late.
Roderick is dead because of her.
I've nothing to live for now.
Yes, you do.
I'll show you.
(hopeful music playing)
The Fiddler didn't kill them.
They're trapped in a vibrational phase.
But they need your gauntlets to get them out.
(electricity crackling)
(groans)
(all gasping)
You made the right choice.
-And reset things in the process.
Hey.
You saved a lot of lives today.
What do you wanna do with The Fiddler?
You figure it out. I'm busy.
(grunts)
(Mercer) Look at him, wandering around like a lost puppy.
-You all right there? -No.
We got what we came for.
Now let's get the hell out of here.
(panting)
It was Mercer.
He took The Fiddler.
And my gauntlets.
(Barry) Her name is Andrea Wozzeck.
Turns out she's also working with Owen Mercer.
"Why," is anyone's guess.
-Supervillain team-up. Great. -Yeah.
So, do we know why they want Hartley's gauntlet?
Do we care?
Uh, look, the only thing that I'm concerned about right now
is what did you decide?
I didn't decide anything, Snow did.
She already told everybody else.
I guess now it's time she tells you too.
What is...
I know that this has been difficult for you,
and that whatever decision I make will affect you a lot.
But not as much as it will affect me.
This is my fate,
my future,
my life.
I'm not going back inside the CRC.
What?
I'm gonna choose my own path and be my own person.
Whoever that ends up being.
So, that's it?
I'm just supposed to forget about Frost and accept this?
Yes.
Because I didn't choose this.
Caitlin did.
When she created a person with feelings and free will.
And I won't give that up to become someone I'm not.
Please, you don't even have your own name.
Actually, I do.
I found out today that my father always dreamed
of creating something or someone new.
And he called her Khione.
But science is like nature.
It can be cruel as well as beautiful.
Either way, we can't control it.
So...
I know Caitlin and Frost are gone.
And we can mourn the flowers that have fallen from the vine.
But we can't ask a new bloom to give up its place in exchange.
I hope you can accept that.
I hope you can accept me.
'Cause I'd like to live and grow with all of you.
We want that too.
You need to get inside right now, okay?
That was always the plan, that was our plan.
That was Caitlin's plan.
Plans change.
No!
(voice whirs)
(intense music playing)
(shouting) Do you realize what you've just done?
Yeah.
I just helped a new friend.
(breathing heavily)
The next time that I see you,
I am taking you down.
Mark.
(slamming)
Looks like you're back to 100%.
(sighs) It stopped raining.
Is Mark gonna be okay?
I hope so.
(intriguing music playing)
Well, the sun is shining,
and we made it through the week.
Hmm, and in one piece, at that.
Mmm-hmm.
And even though it's hard to believe
that we'll never see Caitlin or Frost again,
I am...
happy for Khione.
Yeah.
I know what you mean.
That's why I keep telling myself that
Frost chose to become Hellfrost and fight Deathstorm.
Just like Caitlin chose to go into the CRC.
And now, Khione's made her choice too.
Yeah.
Is it crazy to think that this new version of Caitlin
is what she would have wanted all along?
No, not at all.
I think she'd like her. (chuckles softly)
So?
Hmm?
You got any weekend plans?
Actually, I was thinking
we could take in a geyser.
("Hot Stuff" by Kygo, Donna Summer playing)
Sittin' here, Eatin' my heart out, waitin'
Waitin' for some lover to come
Dialed about a thousand numbers
Wow, you are a great dancer.
(laughs)
And Joe is very good at standing still.
(laughs)
You are funny.
I need some hot stuff, baby, tonight
I want some hot stuff, Baby, this evening
(laughs)
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight
Hot stuff
Baby, tonight
I need hot stuff
(Allegra) Chuck.
I want some hot stuff
Wanna dance?
I need hot stuff
Baby, baby, baby, baby tonight
(air horn honking)
(all cheer)
-Best babymoon adventure-- -Ever.
(chuckling) I love you, Mrs. West-Allen.
I love you.
Even if you are a terrible dancer.
-Oh, come on. -(laughs)
-I'm a good dancer. -Hmm.
Yeah, watch, here we go.
I want some loving, Got to have love tonight
(gauntlets whir)
It's ready.
(platform whirring)
(screaming)
(whooshing)
(energy crackling)
(laughs evilly)
(suspenseful music playing)
Central City, the Flash disgraced me.
Now, all of you will pay the price...
and justice will be served.
(intense music playing)
("Born for This" by Foxxi feat. Natalie Major playing)
Don't kill my vibe
I'm flawless by design
(Barry) What do you mean? Look at me.
Yeah, you got it.
Nobody else has these moves.
-Uh, uh... -That's not really...
(all laughing)
I love dancing!
-He's the Flash! -Nope.
No, I'm not.
Just kidding. h! -Nope.